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Originally Posted by hjalfi
...hey, look, the PW uses 1.8V serial! Which is probably why I wasn't getting anything; even if the driver survived being connected to a 3.3V connection it won't have the oomph to change the levels enough for the bits to register. Be nice to have found that out *before* I hooked it up.
Rumor has it the driver on the Kindle is reasonably robust?
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Yes, it probably survived.
It has for other people.
I don't **recommend** using anything but what is in the Freescale technical manuals (because of habit, and I don't want to be buying a lot of burnt up kindles).
I tried to do my part:
Wiki 'Hardware' index:
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kind...ex#Serial_Port
Forum index:
2012:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ghlight=serial
2014:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...20&postcount=3
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...0&postcount=14
And a whole lot on the subject over the last three years here.
All I can do is write on the subject, index the posts, and tell people how to find things:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=237083
(which is linked to from the 'sticky' "where do I start" first post)
After all of that, if the horse fails to drink and then
NMP